Check this out! The children’s activity book with my illustrations is finally here! Happy, happy, happy! “Mon cahier d’activités tout fou”, written by Madeleine Deny, Éditions Tourbillon. In italiano At the library in the Centre Pompidou in Paris!

First post of this year with some last year Christmas commissions. 😀 Hand painted cushions and illustrated gift bags : Cutomised kitchen apron : Illustrated notebooks and wrappings : Have a great 2015 everyone !

Meet Antoinette – not so trouble-free gal created for Inimitable Laloo, a young French brand of jewellery storage and travel boxes. Their product will be launched soon and more Antoinette’s stories are coming up! http://inimitable-laloo.com

Collage, coloured pencils, pens, lots of fun and lovely mess on my desk! I’m making those calendars on request so if you want one just let me know. Every piece is handmade. Choose cats or pilots and your language Have a great 2014 everyone!

This autumn I’m taking screen printing lessons! I’ve been planning to join a class for some time and recently I’ve found a perfect little workshop in Toulouse: atelier “54 fils au cm”. Here are some pictures of my first attempts:

Last sunday was a nice day for a white wedding. Fanie (the maid of honor) planned a few games to play during that day and asked me to illustrate 12 cards: whoever loses gets one on these and must do what it says for the freshly married couple.

♫ THE STORY BEHIND A SONG ♫ Here is my contribution for the Exquisite Collectif! The Exquisite Collectif is an international collaborative project based on the surrealist game ‘exquisite corpse’. Basically, each participant is given an image to start working from. The two illustrations should be related either by colors, technique, composition… The editing criteria is personal. The theme of their new open call is ♫ THE STORY BEHIND A SONG ♫ I chose “La ballade des gens heureux” by Gérard Lenorman. Born in Poland,…

Last week I joined in a really cool project, The Scribble Matchmaker, launched by Lisa Currie, creator of The Scribble Project. Its aim is to find your scribble match and make you collaborate on a drawing with someone you don’t know. Pretty exciting idea! My scribble half is the Spanish illustrator Marina Ferrando and here is our drawing: Check other yin-yangs on The Scribble Project!

Although april is now gone, here is a beautiful song about this very month. The poem is by Stanisław Grochowiak, the melody by my father. Here is an excerpt from the poem: APRIL Stanisław Grochowiak How blue eye you’ve got nearby woolly catkins Vicar crossed himself, the priest felt offended After all to Blessed Virgin was to be a prayer And here the bishop’s arriving ladybug… [jwplayer player=”1″ playlistid=”826″] You can also view this video on my facebook page.

TAIGA (fragment of poetry) Taiga, puffy, wet moss and bushes having knelt in the swamp.I don’t know for what sin’s penalty is that God ordered them here to grow. Don’t know what kind of burden guilt make these people crumpled full grays with over streak of newly built rails they don’t raise their earthy face. This poem was written by Beata Obertynska. The melody was composed by my father. Beata Obertynska was a Polish writer and poet. In 1940 she was arrested by the NKVD…

A song from my childhood. This Friday is musical and somewhat nostalgic. My father composed this melody in 1974 but recorded it quite recently. The song is a poetic thought about the beauty of the night bathed in moonlight in the Tatras Mountains. The author wishes the moon to stay a little longer because he’s afraid (unnecessarily) that the coming dusk would reveal a less beautiful world.